For this project, I wanted to try to do something new and different from my usual projects, as well as attempt to provoke more discussion than usual. Nearly every project I create is often met with people pretty much just saying "Well, that was loud and bizarre. Thanks. Next." And I really wanted to do something different, where people would interpret and discuss the idea. I believe that it is safe to say that for this project, I managed to get people to talk more than they have for any other project I have done.

What I did was that I started with an idea. The idea I had was to approach the very idea of vision as subjective. That is, while we may physically see the same things, subjectively, what if we actually interpret what we see differently from one another? What if what my mind interprets as brown is what yours sees as red? While we may ascribe the same label to the same color, what if those labels are just how we learned to classify what we are seeing? In this scenario, the way I perceive blue is how you perceive orange, only through societal constructs, we recognize it to be the same thing.

So I decided to create something to serve as a prop, where this idea could be manifested, and that could start as a stepping stone for further debate. These props came in the form of photos I had taken this semester, at home, in Los Angeles, and in upstate New York. I took these photos into photoshop, and spent a frustratingly long amount of time trying to get it to generate a representation indicative of my idea. While I couldn't quite get it to the point I wanted it to be, I eventually began manually replacing colors, and created several images where the difference varied in subtlety.

For the presentation, I started off sharing a clip of an Upright Citizens Brigade sketch, where a "color blind" girl who thought she was eating her red tomato soup, but instead was eating the wax of a burning green candle, cannot differentiate between the color blue and pizza. The girl's cousin asks the question, "How would you like it if you lived in a world, where you looked up in the sky and all you saw was pizza?!" - I felt like this was sort of an extreme example, and I ended up creating a photo to tie it all together. My photos are posted below as the originals, mouse-over to see the altered version.